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We are not using the word in 'any conventional sense

when we say that at such thoughts as these the Germans must be utterly appalled. It is the writing on the wall. What must make the disappointment all the more terrible is the fact that, though the Emperor and the Headquarters Staff, and no doubt also the Chancellor, must have for many months past realized that Germany is beaten, the general public up till now have, in spite of their great sufferings and in spite of great war weariness, always believed that victory was certain in the end, even if it should be deprived of some of its pleasures and shorn of some of its glories by delay.

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